Moduli of curves, Hilbert Schemes, and Tropical Geometry

AMS Special Session Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting, "Brown University" (Virtual) MArch 20-21 2021

This meeting is the rescheduled version of a session planned for the March 2020 AMS Sectional, which was canceled due to COVID.

Times shown are Eastern Time. Note that Daylight Savings will be in effect.

Saturday, March 20: Morning session

8:00AM Han-Bom Moon, Point configurations, phylogenetic trees, and dissimilarity maps
8:30AM Yusuf Mustopa, Rational curves on moduli spaces of vector bundles
9:00AM Dori Bejleri, The locus of rational maps with marked poles inside the Kontsevich space
9:30AM Ana-Maria Castravet, Blown-up toric surfaces with non-polyhedral effective cone

Saturday, March 20: Mid-day session

11:00AM Hyuk Jun Kweon, Bounds on the torsion subgroups of Néron-Severi groups
11:30AM Ethan Cotterill, Arithmetic inflection of superelliptic curves
12:00PM Shiyue Li, Topology of tropical moduli spaces of weighted stable curves in higher genus

Saturday, March 20: Afternoon session

3:00PM Dawei Chen, Volume and Segre class of the cotangent bundle of the moduli space of curves
3:30PM - 5:00PM Open problem discussion (submit problems here)

Sunday, March 21: Mid-day session

11:00AM Renzo Cavalieri, Tropical psi classes
11:30AM María Angélica Cueto, Combinatorics and real lifts of bitangents to tropical quartic curves
12:00PM Claudia Yun, The S_n-equivariant rational homology of the tropical moduli spaces \Delta_{2,n}